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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by FabHK on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:59AM (#30223048)
That is debatable. Many would argue that censorship "by definition" involves the government (not the case here), and not merely the removal of content by someone, but prohibition for everyone to distribute it (not the case here as far as I can tell).
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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by naasking on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:19PM (#30223299)
It literally satisfies the definition of censorship of three dictionaries I checked. Government censorship is the most egregious type we should all fear, but it's not the only type.
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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by gregors on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:24PM (#30223355)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship Corporate censorship is a well understood form.

Example - A news station refusing to publish stories that involves their parent or a sibling company is a common one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_censorship Religious censorship is another well understood form.

If you're saying "political censorship" is the only form of censorship that matters - it's debatable in the same way flat earth arguments are debatable.

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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by gregors on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:48PM (#30223606)
Follow up clarification: If your argument is "corporate censorship is benign when compared to political censorship" then I concede that is very debatable indeed.
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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by choward on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:46PM (#30223584)
> Many would argue that censorship "by definition" involves the government (not the case here)

This does involve the government though. They literally called on Spotify to censor Rogan.

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